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Recommended Books, etc.
Appetite For ProfitMichele Simon -her web site- -the book on Amazon.com- "Once you realize that every move a food company makes is designed to protect its bottom line, you can then more clearly recognize corporate behavior and not let it fool you." (p. 19) 
What To EatMarion Nestle -her web site- -the book on Amazon.com- Dr. Nestle wrote this book in response to comments like this: "When I go into a supermarket, I feel like a deer caught in headlights. Tell me what I need to know so I can make reasonable choices, and quickly." (p. 4) Referring to the high level of methylmercury in albacore tuna, Nestle says "fish companies worried that consumers would interpret advice to avoid albacore tuna as advice to avoid all tuna. Industry lobbyists urged the FDA to keep albacore tuna off the methylmercury advisory. Somehow, albacore tuna got left off." (p. 191) For a more in depth analysis of the economic factors that have shaped our food choices, I also recommend Marion Nestle's Food Politics  The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices MatterPeter Singer & Jim Mason -Singer's web site- -the book on Amazon.com- "Organic food costs more partly because...intensive industrial agriculture leaves others to pay the hidden costs of cheap production- the neighbors who can no longer enjoy being outside in their yard...the farm workers who get ill from the pesticides they apply; the confined animals denied all semblance of a life that is normal and suitable for their species; the fish who die in the polluted streams and coastal waters (and the people who previously caught and ate those fish)..." (p. 221) "Americans spend far less of their income on food than people in other countries do, and that's why most of it tastes so bad." (p. 183)  The
Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous To Your HealthPaul Campos -his web site- -the book on Amazon.com- "Yet obesity researchers rarely seem to be given pause by the fact that life expectance and obesity rates in America have been rising in tandem for at least a century now." (p. 121) "According to orthodox dieting theology, some foods are inherently 'good', while others are just as ineluctably 'bad'. The orthodox thus try their best to avoid all contact with 'bad' food, by indulging in the innocent (yet still somehow guilty) pleasure of 'good' (i.e., fat-free or low-fat, food). This, it goes without saying, is a prescription for creating binge eaters, which is precisely what tens of millions of American dieters have become." (p. 75) 
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We ThinkBrian Wansink -his web site- -the book on Amazon.com- "We don't have to commit to big sacrifices, we only have to pick the habits we can easily forgo." (p. 213) "We can move from mindless overeating to mindless better eating" (p. 209)  Heidi Endemann My sister-in-law's painting, Baby With Necklace, depicts the 'branding' by Coca-Cola and Kellogg's that young children are subject to.
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